On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 03:30:30PM +0200, Erik van Pienbroek wrote: > On to everybody's favorite subject (ahum..), the legal stuff. > First of all, I didn't do a thorough research yet about all the licenses > involved. For GCC and odcctools I don't see any license > incompatibilities which prevent it from inclusion in Fedora. > > The Mac OS X SDK seems to be a mix a various licenses. I've seen files > with the following licenses: > - Apple Public Source License version 1.0 > - Apple Public Source License version 1.1 > - Apple Public Source License version 2.0 > - GPLv2+ > > According to [12] and [13] the APSL 1.0 and 1.1 licenses are a no-go for > Fedora, so that may indicate the whole project isn't welcome in Fedora.. > We could try to extract all the APSL 2.0 and GPLv2+ pieces from the SDK, > but I'm afraid it won't be enough to compile regular applications. > > Another issue we have is that the SDK contains several libraries which > are needed to compile regular applications. The source code for a number > of these libraries isn't open source so that may also be another reason > why the SDK isn't welcome in Fedora.
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